I made the scabbard in its entirety. To begin, I used two pieces of bass wood, pre-cut to the following dimensions: 6mm thick, 100mm wide, and 90cm long. I traced the blade shape onto the wood and then hollowed out the shape for the sword using a hammer and chisel.

Once both sides were hollowed to the correct shape, I then cut out the scabbard body using a power bandsaw and glued each side together using PVA (a compromise) to form the basic scabbard body. I then shaped the body to a lenticular shape using a rasp and then sanded it smooth with sandpaper. At this point, the wooden scabbard body complete, I started on the cover. The wooden body was covered with sheepskin, less than 1mm thick, which was hand-stitched up the front of the scabbard (and would thus be hidden later) with linen thread. This was then dyed with spirit-based dye (a compromise), leaving me with a leather-covered wooden scabbard body.

It is important to note that the sources differ at this point as to further scabbard construction. Wink states that the bronze front plates found â€œwere originally secured to a wooden scabbard,â€